Presidential Elections
This candidate was elected president in 1860.
Who was Abraham Lincoln
This compromise during the writing of the U.S. Constitution counted slaves as three-fifths of their actual number for purposes of taxation and representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This author wrote the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which next to the Bible was the top selling book of the 1800s.
Who was Harriett Beecher Stowe?
These are people who supported a complete ban on slavery in every state.
What were abolitionists?
This man was elected president in 1860 and later was featured on the $5 bill.
Who was Abraham Lincoln
This is the party that Abraham Lincoln belonged to when he was elected president.
What is the Republican Party?
This compromise, reached in 1820, admitted both Missouri and Maine to the Union and set Missouri's southern border as the northernmost point of future slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
When he met the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1862, this man supposedly said, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This convention of abolitionist women was held in 1848 after they were turned away from an all-male convention. This convention also promoted the women's suffrage movement.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
This Democratic senator from Illinois, nicknamed The Little Giant, sought re-election in 1858 and engaged in a series of debates with Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln.
Who was Stephen A. Douglas.
This candidate was elected president in 1852.
Who was Franklin Pierce?
This compromise consisted of five acts of Congress, including the admission of California as a free state and the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The setting for the first part of Uncle Tom's Cabin is in this border state.
What is Kentucky?
This is the term used to describe the act of leaving the Union by the Southern states before the Civil War.
What is secession?
This escaped slave reached freedom in the North but repeatedly returned to the South to help other slaves escape on what became known as the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriett Tubman?
This candidate was elected president in 1856.
Who was James Buchanan?
This act and allowed each territory to choose whether to have slavery under the doctrine of "popular sovereignty," regardless of location.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
In Uncle Tom's cabin this slave overhears George Shelby's plan to sell her son and Uncle Tom. She begs Tom to join her but he refuses. She escapes to Ohio with her son.
Who was Eliza?
This religious revival took place from approximately 1790 and 1830 and increased support for labor laws and abolition.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
This South Carolina representative was so outraged by a speech given by abolitionist Sen. Charles Sumner that he entered the Senate and severely beat him with a cane. He was expelled from the House but immediately re-elected.
Who was Preston Brooks?
President Millard Fillmore, who took office after the death of Zachary Taylor, was the last president to belong to this political party.
What is the Whig Party?
This amendment was passed by Congress in March, 1861, in an effort to get Southern states to remain in the Union. Quietly supported by Lincoln, it would have guaranteed slavery "forever." It was not ratified.
What was the Corwin Amendment?
This evil slave owner purchased Uncle Tom and beat him in an effort to force him to renounce his belief in God, eventually killing him.
Who is Simon Legree?
This movement, which is closely aligned with the women's movement, discouraged the use of alcohol and eventually led to the ban on alcohol by the 18th Amendment.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This former slave spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention and became a leader in the early women's movement, supporting abolition, women's suffrage, and temperance.
Who was Sojourner Truth?